kde/kaffeine problem

[Joel123]

In my brand new install of fedora 10, I tried to install kaffeine (sudo yum install kaffeine). When I start it, the program crashes.

This is what I get after entering the command kaffeine at the prompt:
Error: Can not create link from "/home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain" to "/tmp/kde-joel"
Error: Can not create link from "/home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain" to "/tmp/kde-joeljNGu1V"
trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain: Permission denied
Error: Can not create link from "/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain" to "/tmp/ksocket-joel"
Error: Can not create link from "/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain" to "/tmp/ksocket-joel8gCute"
trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain: Permission denied
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : No such file or directory
Could not bind to socket '/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain/kdeinit__0'

I changed the permissions of my home directory to a+wx, and changed the permissions of the directory ~/.kde to a+w; kaffeine opens but can't open /dev/dvd, can't open dvb device. It also returns

trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/share/servicetypes: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/share/mimelnk: Permission denied
etc..

how should i configure kde/kaffeine/permissions to get this thing to work?

[anonymouse]

I had this problem. For some reason, the .kde folder in my home directory had been created with "root" ownership, not my username. To fix, open a terminal in your home directory:

- su
<enter root password>
- chown -R <your username>:<your username> .kde
- exit